Re: 19990823: installing netCDF-2.4.3 under linux

Hi Dan,

>Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:53:05 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Dan Codiga <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Connecticut
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 19990823: installing netCDF-2.4.3 under linux 
>Keywords: 199908232005.OAA27568

In the above message, you wrote:

> I have no particular allegiance to version 2.4.3, other than this:  I am
> installing netCDF in order to make Hydrobase (version 1.3.1) work. ( Check
> 
> ftp://flotsam.whoi.edu/pub/hydrobase/
> 
> for more about that package.)
>  
> In the installation notes for Hydrobase, there is a clear statement that I
> need to use "the old netCDF version, 2.4.3":
> 
> >Install netCDF libraries:
> >--------------------------
> 
> >HydroBase uses netCDF library functions to create network-transparent
> >gridded
> >data files.  You must install these libraries on your platform.  They are
> >available by anonymous ftp from:
> >
> >      unidata.ucar.edu (128.117.140.3)
> >***********************************************************************
> >AT this time you must get the older (non-ANSI) netcdf version 2.4.3!!!!
> >***********************************************************************
> 
> 
> That is my only reason...

Yuck!

I suspect that they don't know what they're talking about (either that
or we've done our job wrong -- which is possible but unlikely).

I suggest installing the latest netCDF release.  Hydrobase shouldn't
see anything different from version 2.4: the fact that you'd be using
version 3.4 would be totally transparent.

The reason that I suggest this is that we've dropped support for version
2.4 of the netCDF package.  Consequently, any support request for that
version will sit at the bottom of the request queue and may take quite a
while to get answered (as usual, we're very busy at the moment, so I'm
talking weeks here).

Any problems with backward compatibility with the latest release,
however, is an urgent problem and we'd drop everything to fix it.

> Dan
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>